Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-03
THE MODERN WOMAN.
The Gowns That She Wears-Miss
Parioa Again.

the romancers ascribe to her, they had
need be OF good size and stoutly festh-
cred to lift her and her p sraphernalia
above the ground.
tried the scales upon her hat and wrap
last week. The little jet and lace affair
that fits so jauntily over her shoulders
and looks as airy and light as the spring
morning itself IS no such gossamer, can
assure you. 1t need weigh next to moth
ing. but it can and does run as high as
thirty pounds. Ten pounds is good ave-
rage weight for glitter and unkle enough
to make panoply OF sparkling sun points
Of their owner as she walks the streets
looking like dew drop and feeling like a
lump of lead.
The long and dignified raglan that COW
ers the figure from top to toe has posi-
bilities in the way OF beads that are not
granted it for nothing, and it improves
them TO the full. Forty pounds l have
seen it weigh; there are fairy tales OF
fifty, but speak only whereof know.
The bonnet hardly knows the meaning
of avoirdupois till it makes the acquaint-
ance of that black king jet, but then it
weighs down the scales in right lordly
fashion. Four pounds is little enough for
gittering beaded crown, aid there are
heads that submit to eight and nine with
out a murmur Tor the sake of such regal
di sdem.
Forty-five pounds have known jettsd
gown to weigh; plus thirty for the wrap
ana five for the bonnet, the sum Is nice
little total of eighty pounds for the pro-
verbally delicate American woman to
carry about with her on her prOmenades.
WOMEN IN NEW FIELDS.
Clara Neymann's brigh hit dau gnter. olga,
has opened dentists office in New York
ID a.xlr oh h. NRNlw
tDat profession in the city. Dentistry and
medicine are in some ways closely allied,
but there are hundreds of women In the
former to one who is attracted to the lat
ter. Miss Neymann graduated from the
Philadelphia College of Dentistry year
ago or Whereabouts, and Is making a sat-
lsfact0ry beginning in the business she
has chosen. she reports, when one ques-
ti0ns her OF her success, cordial greet
ing from her brothers In the profession,
though it is permissible to wonder if her
piquant face and trim figure have not
something to do with the welcome she
receives. Miss Neymann's surroundings
abate good deal of the terror that waits
on the footsteps of the dentist, chilling
the blood of his prospective victims, for
all ls sunny, homelike and feminine to a
degree.
Another clever woman who is Just set
Ting her lares and penates in New York
is Mrs Florence Kelley Wischnewetsky,
who is, in spite of her suspiciously mini
listic name, daughter of Judge W. ID.
Kelley, of Pennsylvania. who has brought
back with her from four years. stay at
the University of Zurich Russian medi-
cal student for husband, and, perhaps
by dint of love or logic or both, a strong
infusion of socialistic views.
Florence Kelley graduated from Cor
nell some half dozen years ago, bright
faced, enthusiastic girl, and went abroad
to study political economy, a science that
interests lew women. but lays strong hold
on the handful 1t attracts. She began the
work of a ne wspaper correspondent for
syndicate of American journals almost
Immediately, aud her sketches of the con-
dition of the Workingw0men of Germany
and letters on the rise and progress of the
social democratic party in the German
cities attracted some little attention from
the press.
Since her return to America Mrs.
Wischnewetsky has been put In charge
of q series OF publications to be issued as
the New York Labor Library, and intend
ed to supply economic literature to the
working classes. A translation Of DR..
Johann Jakobps "Object OF the Labor
Movement" which came out in pamphlet
form ten days ago, Is the first OF the issue
10 appear, and will be followed by original
and translated matter from her and from
other hands. A more ambitious effort Is
a translation OF Engels' Investigation of
the condition of the working Glasses
OF Manchester, which Lovel publishes
this week. Frederick Engels was
cO-worker with Karl Marx, and his
book, which has never yet had an
English dress, is q standard in the Ger
man universities. He has himself pre-
pared an appendix and preface to bring
it down to date and adapt it to American
conditions, and has taken throughout a
lively interest in his feminine disciples
work.
Mrs. Wischnewetsky has a mobile face
that speaks her thoughts before she utters
them. she is busy woman, full Of plans
for future work, and will bring a quick
wit and unusual intelligence 10 the more
radical side OF the discussion OF the social
topics of the day.
DR.. Lucy M. Hall, the resident physi-
clan OF Vassar College, was one of the
guests at the annual dinner OF Sorosis last
week. DIR. Hall is not Durdened with un-
due concern at the evil representations
of DR.. Withers Moore or others OF his ilk. |
Two or three times within the past year
have asked her of the health record OF the |
young women in her care, and the Inva- |
riable reply has been that it was excel |
lent. Last year, she tells me, she kept a |
careful list from New Years Day 10 De- |
cember, tabulatlng every hour lost by |
sickness by the girl students throughout |
the school. When the twelve months |
were over she compared her statistics |
with the corresponding health tables OF |
the young men at Amherst only to find |
the Vassar girls appreciably in the lead. |
The list of ailments in the girls college |
was the shorter and the total number Of
days off duty looked small beside the fig
ures OF the supposedly more robust men.
Study does not hurt the health, she says;
the girls gain flesh and color under the
regimen OF regular work and the stimulus
of wholesome mental drill.
MISS MARIA PARLoA AGAIN.
1t would DO worth Mr.. Howells' while
to attend a session or two OF Mise Maria
Parloa's cooking class. / am not sure
that he would care-any more than 1 do
Tor the latest wrinkle in the preparation
OF clear soup; but If he did not get q new
idea Of the possibilities of a straightior-
ward. honest poise on the part OF woman,
in the best q hum0r with the world and
not bothered with consciousness OF self,
then the novelist is imperyious to any
conception other than that OF the bit OF
nerves with the labyrinth OF crooks aud
turns in her insincere mental make up
that he seems TO delight In.
The other day something slipped and
boiling water ran over Miss Parloa's two